Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1926 — Page 22

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SHERD has been a lot of talk concerning the advantage of the home floor In basket ball. But just how much? —that was- the question. The Big Ten Weekly got busy and figured out the dope on the Western Conference seasons of 1923, '24, and ’2f>. The Aggers show an advantage of eight points. That’s coldblooded arithmetic, so don’t argue about it. The lwme-and-liome arrangement of Aie Biff Ten schedule makes an ideal test. This eightpoint variation means that if Indiana defeated PurdOo by three points at Indiana, that, according to the Aggers compiled, Purdue should boat the Crimson by live (mints at Lafayette. Os course this doesn't always work cut in each case, ft is the grarid average. In 1923 the home advantage was not so marked because Wisconsin and lowa won eleven out of twelve contests. They didn’t seem to mind the “foreign” courts. In that year home clubs won 31 games and visitors 29. In 1924, however, home teams won 41 and visitors only 1!). Last year the home boys took 38 games and the visitors won 21. This season the average of victories for teams on home floors has been very high. Points scored in 1923 —Home teams, 1,426; visitors, 1,407. In 1924—Home teams, 1,637; visitors, 1,444. In 1925—Home teams, 1,596; visitors, 1,350. In 1924 and 1925 the variation has been nine points. It looks as though over a period of three years a fairly accurate line has been obtained on this interesting phenomenon. At least, the cold facts bear out the suppositions of many fans who guessed the home floor worth ten points.

mWO Big Ten games are on the program for Saturday night. Chicago goes to Ohio State and Minnesola plays at lowa. The home clubs appear to have the edge. The Hawkeycs are much better on their own floor, and should defeat the Gophers. McConnell, a great guard, is likely to take care of Rasey of Minnesota, and when that player is stopped the Swedes are stopped. A “bear” story from Columbus says that Cunningham of the Ohio State club may be out of the game with an old football injury. Outguess is that he will play at least part of the time, and the Buckeyes should down the Maroons. Chicago defeated the Buckeyes at Chicago by one point in the last minutes of the gamo, when Hoerger, a fine defensive man, took it upon himself to toss in some baskets. It is very likely to be a different story Saturday night. •* * / Eli ERE is always a bit of of spice in most everything that happens on the Riviera. There are always those who search behind the scenes for motives. The gossips are 1 ever ready to pounce on the slightest bit of information which may be rolled around the tongue and spread about with knowing glances. Innuendoes, with suggestive smirks, are a part of the daily routine. A gold cup, valued at SSOB, has been offered by an English magar /.ine, The Outlook, to the winner of the first women’s singles tennis tourney, in which both Helen Wills and Suzanne Lenglen are entered. The Riviera gossips are intrigued. The magazine is owned—by the Duke of Westminster, whose engagement to Mile. Ijenglen has been rumored and denied by Suzanne. * * * mHE two most “unpopular”' basketball fouls as far as the crowd is concerned are called on players who are on the offensive. The fans do not like a penalty called on a dribbler for charging into a guard. The whistle on this play brings forth an echo of disapproval. Many simply do not understand the rules on this. The other foul of which we are speaking is seldom seen by the spectators so they think the official is pulling off something on them. Some forwards, if they can get away with it, have a. habit of giving the opposing guard a quick shove under the basket to get Ijim off balance in ordev to get the Hall off the backboard for a close-in shot. The fans usually have their eyes on the ball and seldom see thlsk slick procedure. The foul is often caught by the umpire as the referee follows the course of the ball. • * * It looks as though the Evansville College fans are all agog over the game at Agoga Tabernacle on Saturday with Franklin College. * * * OOCAL boxing fans are interested tonight in two bouts. They are anxious to see what Merle Alte will do against I)oc Snell, one of the Pacific Coast phenoms who has recent victories over Joey Sangor of Milwaukee and Charley Rosenberg, bantam champ. If Alte could slip over one of his haymakers he would be "made” as a boxer. Odds are against the local boy, however. The battle is a ten-rounder at East Chicago. In New York Madison Square Garden, Risko, who has fought several times here, will get his chance against Jack Delaney of Bridgeport, Conn. Risko is tough hut he will be up against one of the best boys lie has met in his meteoric career. FROEBEL H. S. WINS Bu Timet Special GARY, Ind., Feb. s.—The Froebel High School basket team of Gary defeated Valparaiso at that city Thursday night, 43 to 35. The winners pulled away in the final minutes.

STORM! NIGHT ON STATE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL COURTS

Kokomo at Frankfort Recalls Last Year’s Final Tourney Feature Games as Season Reaches Climax. The good 3hip “Basketball,” claiming Indiana as her home port, today began the work of battening down the hatches and making all snug in preparation for the opening of a stormy course during the remainder of the season. And tonight will be one of the stormiest of these nights which constitute the season prior to the opening of the round of tournaments. .

History will roll back almost a year as Kokomo and Frankfort again clash on the. hardwood. The scene will not be the Exposition Bldg, at the State fairground, where Frankfort won its title from the Wildcats in 1925. Tonight's contest will be played at Frankfort. Plunkett, ace and leading scorer of the Champs,, will be back on the floor, and he will be needed, for Rut Walter and his cohorts are out to win. This game probably will be one of the "stormiest” of the night. Marion vs. Muncie Marion, the sensational team that upset Martinsville one Week ago and then in turn was upset by Bloomington on the following night, clashes with Muncie in the port from which the Bearcats sail. Indications are that the two teams are so evenly matched, that this contest should approach the ferocity of the “storm” at Frankfort. Tim -Campbell, skipper of the Shelbyville bark, will try a raid on the home port of the Martinsville crs,ft. It is a dangerous venture for the Shelbyville craft. At Anderson Cliff Wells is going to sail from Logansport out on the high seas of basket ball in an effort to sink the canoes of the Anderson Indians. Down in the waters of the '‘south seas” Vincennes craft which proudly bears the name of Alice will venture to try its guns against those of the Washington frigate, Hatchet. Bloomington will try to keep Its reputatibn as an upset crew.* It meets Bedford on the Bloomington floor —the same floor that proved Marion’s downfall last Saturday night. This will be another case of an old rivalry being revived. Rivalry Fray Franklin and Columbus also will renew a battle that has been raging almost since basketball became known in Indiana. Franklin has the edge due to a previous victory and the fact that the game will be played at Franklin. Lebanon, with a ship that is being groomed for a career as a “privateer,” will meet Jeff of Lafayette on its home floor. This scrap will also recall memories of yesteryear. In the north Emerson of Gary goes to Whiting. South Bend and Elkhart also clash. Many other battles will this stormy night in Hoosierdom.

State College Games

tONIOHT Butler at Wisconsin. Oakland City at Hanover. SATURDAY , Butler at Marauette. De Pauw at Earlham. Franklin at Evansville. Kotre Datnc at Illinois. Manchester t-t Concordia (Ft, Wayne). Indiana Central at Oakland City. I. U. MATMEN ON TRIP Crimson (imppiers to Meet Northwestern Saturday at Evanston. Z? Timet (Special BLOOMINGTON. Feb. B.—-The Indiana University wrestling team will get away for Evanston in the /homing where the Crimson grapplers Will meet Northwestern Saturday night. Seven wrestlers along with Coaches Reynolds and Held will make the trip. DELANEY IS FAVORITE Jack Clashes With Johnny Risko in Garden Tonight. /it; United F'rres NEW VOR-K. Feb. s.—Jack Delaney, Bridgeport light heavyweight, is an 8 to 5 favorite to win from Johnny Risko, Cleveland, when they meet tonight in Tex Rickard’s Garden. Basketball Notes The Shoe Market five defeated the Western Union team at the C. C. C. gym, .'l4 to 28. The Western Unions led at the half. 15 to 11. hut the winners came back strong lit the final period. South Side Turners will play the Southeastern Odd Fellows Sunday afternoon. The Southeastern* have not bean defeated in the Odd Fellow League. The Turners will ploy some of the best clubs in the State this month at the local gym. Some road games are wanted. Address AI Meyer, 306 Prospect St., or eall 'Drexcl 4220. The Western Union Messenger team defeated the William H. Block Company five. 37 to 27. Thursday night at East Tenth Street gym. This im the lost game for the Messengers before the independent tournament. The team has played forty-four game*, olid lost only five. The Postal Telegraph team won two games Thursday night. In the first came the club defeated the Tliirtv-Fourth Street Fla sing 32 to 18. and defeated the Five Aces in the second contest. 32 to 28. The. Postals desire to schedule games with fast local and State teams playing in the 14-to--15-year-oid class. Call Main 3000 after 6 P. m. and ask for Bill. Woodside Juniors and Indianapolis Marvels take notice. Th f Ejnstem Outlaws want games in tho I C.-l 7-year-old class. Teams having access to gyms call Irvington 1066-J, after 0 p. m.. and ask for Dave. EIGHTEEN GIANTS UNSIGNED Bn United Peres NEW YORK, Feb. s.—Eighteen players of the New York Giants, including Frank Frisch, Irish Meusel, George Kelly, Bill Terry and Ross Young have not signed new eont tracts. I SYRACUSE FIVE STRONG Bn United- l‘rrxn SYRACUSE, N. Y„ Feb. 6.—Syiacuse University continued its inarch toward the eastern basketball championship by defeating Rutgers, 42 to 25, here Thursday night.

What They’re Saying

Jim Thorpe, . 1-0101 Hill veteran Indian v athlete, finally ,/T7v has retired from sports, and it is reported lie lias /7>. decided to use his native red- Aal skin prowess xfy' with the canoe r to sell Florida real estate. In the Senate, if you act that way, they call you an irreconcilable.. Any place else they Call you a* mule head.t. .Imagine calling old Duke Reiley an irreconcilable! Benny Leonard says the days of big purses are gone forever.... Which proves Benny, hasn't noticed the ones the girls are carrying now. Somebody said It looks as though John Barleycorn will have to come back to restore the price of corn.... We didn’t know John had been away. Coach Knute Rockne of Notre Dame was introduced in Paris as the “Rock of Grid Sages.” The swing is the thing, says Golf Expert Morrison. . . . Dense DiAna Bays the hammock is the real article. Is romance dead? No, but it’s speeded up a whole lot.

VET IS SOLD \ t / Indians Send Christenbury to Buffalo Team. Lloyd Christenbury, outfielder, today was cut loose from the Tj-ib.e roster when Vice President W. C. Smith sold his services to the Buffalo team of the International League. Bill Cljmer manages the Bisons. Christie was sent to the Southern Assbciation last season, but later was turned hack to the Indians. Manager Bush now has six outfielders on his player list. They are Rehg, Matthews, Stephenson, Klugman, Wyatt and Allen. WALLACE VIS4TS REESE Local Boxer Leaves to Have Injured Hand Examined. Roy Wallace, local middleweight boxer, who also mingles with light heavies how and then, today departed for Youngstown, Ohio, to have his injured right hand examined by “Bonesetter” Reese. Reese is the man who has gained fame by "fixing up” athletes who are bothered by strains, sprains and dislocations. Wallace has a number of lucrative bouts in view and is eager to get his haymaker fist back in shape. ‘FROSH’ WIN AT BUTLER Yearlings Cop Title in Inter-Class ' • Basket League. Tiie Butler freshmen won the interclass basket title Thursday night by defeating the Juniors in a double overtime thriller, 37 to 86. The score at the end of the regulation time was 26-all. At the close of the first extra five minutes the count stood at 80-all. The sophs downed the seniors, 24 to 17. Final standing: VFr>n. Lost. Frosh 5 l Soph* .‘I :l Junlon. a a Seniors 1 N 5 MANUAL “FRESH” WIN Manual freshman basket team de seated Southport “fresh” Thursday at the south side gym, 41 to 9. The score at the hnlf was 21 to 8. Rice of Manual made nine field goals.

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BOWLING TOURNEY TO OPEN City Pin Getters Start Meet Saturday at Central Alleys. The twentieth annual city bowling tournament starts Saturday night at the Central alleys with sixteen fiveman teams taking the drives. Entries as announced by E. t\ Hoffstatter, secretary of the local association, include eighty-four flve-man teams, 173 doubles and 329 singles. This is an increase over last year, at which time sixty-five squads competed. The tourney is scheduled to close Feb. 27. Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights of each week will be open in the schedule. The first week will see the five-man squads in action exclusively. Next Tuesday appears to be,the high spot of the program, with the pick of the lastest loops in action. The schedule for tonight follows; FIVE-MAN—7 ;15 P. M. _ Captain. Indiana Bell Telephone Cos W. Moore Big City “5" E. Newlen Geiger & Peters Iron Works. .J. G. Geiger Merchants Central Pick-ups R Bailev Hill & Cos , J. W. Hill Central Indiana Power Cos D. Glubka Heller Coal Cos J. M. Heller Illinois Recreation C. Caruajcta FIVE MAN—9:IS P. M. Team. Captain. Fletcher American Natl. Bank. .W. Eggert Beam’s Colts >.. . . t . . ,B. Cutsinger Q-.J- * W ; K- R P. Stephenson Railway Signal E. MeMillian Super Service O. Moos Link Belt No. 2 ~.D. Billion Straggelrs W. H. Veikcr Indians H. Schneidermun ALTE MEETSDOCSNELL Indianapolis Lad in Bout at East Chicago Tonight. Bu United Prctt EAST CHICAGO, Ind., Feb. 5. Doc Snell, Pacific Coast featherweight, and Merle Alte, Indianapolis, will meet In a ten-round bout here tonight. They are featherweights. Snell is the favorite-. CITY THREE-CUSHION Iloufeman lost two matches in the city three-cushion billiard tourney at the Boaid of Trade parlors, Thursday night. Shane defeated him, 50 to 43. and Cook took his measure, 50 to 45.

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LIGHT HEAVY Pascoe, Postal Boy, Enters Amateur Ring Show. William Pascoe of the Postal Telegraph Company filed his entry in the light heavyweight class of the city amateur boxing championship tournament today, and when he meets Alvin Howard of the Turners Monday night at the Turner gym it is expected there will be a goodsized bunch of Postal employes on hand. When the tournament entry list was closed last Tuesday night, Howard was the only entrant in the lightheavyweight class, and the Turner committee today decided to allow Pascoe’s belated entrance in order to make some competition for the big south side boy. Ringside seats for the show were

P*~nURDUE UNIVERSITY will send Its crack swimming team against the Hoosier Athletic Club’s best swimmers, in the H. A. C. tank Saturday night. Adolph Herlitz, Charles Pahud and Paulus Strack have wen places on the H. A. C. team and are expected to make a good showing in Saturday’s events. As usual the H. A. C. has a strong squad, and while new and Inexperienced In competition, it is rapidly rounding Into form. Saturday night’s program will be open to the public and will begin at 8 o'clock. placed on sale, today at the Em-Roe and Smith, Hassler & Sturm sporting goods stores/ FRESHMAN GAME Bil Timet Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 5. De Pauw and Wabash “freshie” basketball teams meet here tonight.

Butler-Wisconsin Game on Air Tonight (loach YV. E. Mean we LI of the YY’isoonsin University basketball team today notified The Times that the Butler-Wisconsin net struggle at Madison, YVK, tonight would be broadcast from Station YV T IA (535 meters). The wire from the Badger mentor said the contest would get under way at 7:80 o’clock. > STRONG CARD Feb. 10 Prelim Bouts Promise Lively Action. In looking around for aggressive scrappers to perform in his two sixround prelims for his Feb. 10 show at Tomlinson Hall, Matchmaker Jacobs pf the National A. C. set his lines out for bdys with a punch. Ray Dodd and Marlon Kepner, local maulers, have come to the front recently as hard sockers and they were signed. Dodd will battle Billy Beatty, Louisville, and Kepner will tackle Bobby Gray, Louisville. Dodd stopped Beatty recently, and the Louisville lad almost shed tears over the setback and immediately sought a return match. And he gets it. \ Kepner is a slugger of power and either wins decisively or loses the sapi® way. He will be meeting a beefy foe In Gray and will need all his clubbing ability to stop the Coloneltown knuckle duster. These scraps are in addition to the ten-round feature between George Mulholland and Jim Savage, and two eight-round encounters. Herbie Schaefer vs. Louie Andrews and Louisville Jackie Dugan vs. Eddie Walsh. YANKEE INFIELD NAMED Gehrig, Koenig, Li Zcrri and Dugan to Start Season. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Feb. s.—Lou Gehrig, Mark Koenig, Tony Li Zerri and Joe Dugan will be the regular Yankee, infield this year, Manager Miller Huggins announced today. That's the way Huggins will start the season, but of course it will be up to the athletes to make good if they are to hold the positions through the campaign.

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STARS TO PLAY AT CARLTON Lenglen-Wills Tennis Clash Expected to Occur in Tourney Shortly. % Bu United Press NICE, Feb. s.—Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis star, announced definitely today that she would play in the singles at the Carlton tournament starting next week. Miss Helen Wills, American champion, made it known- at the same time that she would play singles and it seems almost certain now that the long deferred and eagerly awaited match between the two stars will result in the Carlton classic. Mile. Lenglen continued her sweep through the Nice singles today when she overwhelmted Mlbs Hylock In two love sets. Miss Wills is not playing singles in the Nice event. MILLER PURDUE COACH Former Boilermaker Matraan TakesCluarge of Wrestlers. Bu Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. s.—Her-. bert A. Miller has been appointed' wrestling coach at Purdue Unl'verslty tjo succeed William Von Bernuth, who resigned. Miller was captain of the 1925 grappling team and graduated last year. MEHLHORN GOLF VICTOR Chicago Pro Beats Cndckshank at Hot Springs. Bu United Press HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Feb. 5. Bill Mehlhorn, Chicago, took the South Central open golf championship, defeating Bobby Crulckshank Thursday, by one stroke in eighteen holes playoff. Mehlhorn turned In a 73, one under par. COFFEY AT FORDHAM Bu United Press NEW YORK, Feb. S.—Jack Coffey, former major league player and manager of the Denver club, Thursday was appointed graduate manager of athletics at Fordham University.